Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

Hi :

I'm using 7.3.7.2 on UbuntuStudio and I'm always using 'save as' but I've never had the problem you 
describe. Sorry.

Philip

On 18/07/2023 16:13, Mike Scott wrote:
> Hi all; a very weird issue has been found by my wife, which I can repeat on a separate machine. 
> Both use LO 7.3.7.2 on Mint 21.
>
> What happens is this. Take an odt file, open it in Writer then go to 'Save As'. The expected 
> behaviour is that the filename in the dialogue box will be filled in and selected/highlighted and 
> there'll be no file type appended. Eg, I open yyy.odt, and 'Save As' displays just 'yyy' 
> (highlighted).
>
> However, sometimes and for no apparent reason, the dialogue box instead displays filename and file 
> type ('yyy.odt'), with the type (only) highlighted. This causes issues when trying to save as a 
> different type (eg as .docx)
>
> Even more odd is that simply copying  (^C, ^V in a file manager) a wrongly-behaving file to a 
> different directory can change the behaviour.
>
> I wondered if my wife had managed to include some weird character, but
> the filename /looks/ kosher: 'ls -1 | od -cb' shows nothing untoward. And indeed, one or two of my 
> own files show the same behaviour. (I rarely use 'Save As' anyway.)
>
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss about where to check next. Has anyone else experienced this please and can 
> say what's happening?
>
> TIA.

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